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For Educators, Formal and Informal
The week of November 9th, 2008 is Earthquake Awareness Week. SCEEP will have numerous activities planned for that week. Please check our calendar of events for upcoming workshops and activities. We hope you will join us at one or more of the events. Other resources are listed below.
- Earthquake Toolkits for Checkout
SCEEP is in the proces of developing toolkits for formal and informal educators to check-out for use in the classroom. These toolkits are available for free and can be checked out for 1-2 weeks. If you are interested in checking one of these out, contact our education specialist, Charlie Kaufman, at kaufmanc@cofc.edu. These will be available in Noveber 2008. Some of the activities, all mapped to the National Sceince Education Standards, within the toolkits are:
- Beneath the Earth: Mythological Stories about earthquakes [PDF]
- Spaghetti Faults: See what happens to the rocks when a strike-slip earthquake occurs [PDF]
- Watch it Wiggle: see what happens when soils liquefy and undertand the implications that this has for earthquake hazards [PDF]
- Locating an Earthquake Epicenter using math and triangulation [PDF]
- CRASH BOOM BANG!: Plate Motion, Earthquakes and Vectors [PDF]
- Great shakes what is happening here?: a look at why we have earthquakes in South Carolina [PDF]
- Seismic Wave Races [PDF]
- Shake, Rattle, Roll: Build your own house and see how it stands up under an earthquake simulation [in development]
- Jump Around, Up and Down: try to create your own earthquake that registers on the seismometer [in development]
You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view these files. It is free for download from the Adobe website.
- Using South Carolina Earthquakes to Teach Science, Math, and Social Studies: Everyone Loves a Good Rumble! Workshops
- Fact Sheet 1 > What is an earthquake? [PDF]
- Fact Sheet 2 > Why are there earthquakes? [PDF]
- Fact Sheet 3 > What happens during an earthquake? [PDF]
- Fact Sheet 4 > How do earthquakes cause damage? [PDF]
- Fact Sheet 5 > Locating, measuring and predicting an earthquake - how do we do it? [PDF]
- Fact Sheet 6 > South Carolina earthquakes - why do we have them? [PDF]
You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view these files. It is free for download from the Adobe website.
- Links to activities and other educator resources
- Calendar of Events
- 1886 Earthquake Walking Tour [19 MB]
You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view these files. It is free for download from the Adobe website.
- Middle School Earthquake Curriculum - currently in development
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